To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Supporting persimmon, apple and pear grafts on weak understock?
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:12:14 -0500
At 06:03 PM 7/24/2005, you wrote:
I have had good success bark grafting persimmons,but not ioo%.I had several
blow out till now I started supporting with posts and cutting the tips of
each branch..
I always intend to get out there and stake my grafts, but rarely get around
to it. Occasionally lose a graft on a seedling rootstock that's out in the
open to wind or bird perching, but those in the nursery beds are, I
suppose, in close enough proximity to all their neighbors that I've not had
a problem with them breaking out.
On the few that I have staked, I just stick a bamboo stake in next to the
rootstock or tape it to the rootstock, then loosely tie or tape(with
masking tape) the vigorously-growing graft to the bamboo.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY